Campbell

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Thinking of calling my son Campbell. Its a family name. It's quite serious and grown up so he will probably be called Cammy.

What does everyone think?

Souper 👌

I love it!

I loved this name and it was always top of my list. DH wasn't keen because he knew someone at school 🙄

You'll get handwringing on MN about it being a surname but so are the majority of boys names really, and particularly so with Scottish names.

Sorry but Cammy is dire. Oh

My first thought too!

Cam/Cammy is quite common in Scotland - more these days as a shortened version of Cameron than Campbell but it works just as well for Campbell. I like it

Curse of the Campbells

How about Heinz or Baxter? Cup-a-Soup?

LOL

I know a little Campbell and he is lovely! He doesn’t get Cammy though

Sorry but that’s a really rude comment from someone with a name as controversial as Tallulah! (Which incidentally I love but Mumsnet hates and mocks constantly. I’d expect you to be a bit more compassionate based on this!)

Soup.
Cammay was a soap.
Cameron?

....you really think that is my real name?

I agree- I can’t get the reactions to this name at all. I think it’s nice, and actually I don’t really think about the soup at all, and more than I think about jam when I hear the surname Robertson.

*any more

Quite a common name up here in Scotland - I love it.

Use as a middle name, it’s a name they’ll b teased about.

Thanks for the replies.

I didnt think it was such a controversial name. Maybe there's an England/Scotland divide happening as I'm up North and I always thought it was a pretty standard name.

I've never bought the soup. More of a Heinz tomato girl.

Someone said they could be bullied with this name. Is that cos it sounds like camel or because of the camp part? Or something else that I'm completely missing!

Campbell is a v common name where I am - wouldn't think twice if I heard it. Plenty of Cammys around too!

I would think soup, but am a southerner.

I went to school with a campbell. I'd never heard of it before then as we are in the north west but his parents were Scottish. He was a dish every girl fancied him! Never got bullied for his name in fact he was very popular and well liked.

Fellow Scot here, plenty of Campbell’s about. I think Cammy is a cute pet name. I’ve recently had a DS who has a very Scottish name also and has a shortened pet name.

It's my maiden name and I did think about it as a first name for one of my DSs. It's not uncommon up here.

My friend named her little girl Campbell (nn Cam) and she's super cute!

I like it, not heard it being used lots here (NE Scotland), I have one adult friend Campbell who is only known as Soupy :-)